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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "hundred thousand united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • agnesgezi@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Agnes Gezi <agnesgezi@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 12:54:15 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: I NEED YOUR HELP


THE CEO/

FOR YOUR KIND ATTENTION,

Due to my careful search for an honest, reliable and sincere business partner, I got your contact from the internet and I ask if you can be trusted not to break an agreement? Still, it took me time to make up my mind, to contact you and to offer you this proposal of mine of which my whole life depends on. Please reply to me on my personal email (agnesgezi@yahoo.com)

My name is Miss AGNES GEZI the daughter of Mr.GEZI JONAS SANGO of blessed memory from Zimbabwe, During the current crises against the farmers in Zimbabwe, from the supports of President Robert Mugabe, to claim all the white-owned farms to his party members and his followers, he ordered all white farmers to surrender all thier farms to his party members and his followers.

My father is One of the most successful multi farmers in our country, and because he did not support Mugabe`s ideas, his supporters invaded his farm and burnt everything in the farm, killing him and made away with a lot of items in the farm. Before his death, my father had a deposit with a (FINANCE HOUSE IN ASIA), the sum of (USD $8.5 MILLION) Eight Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars Only.

After the death of my father, I decided to move to Republic of SENEGAL, where I re-located under political assylum as a refugee. I decided to seek for a foriegn partner overseas, that will assist me to move this money out of(THE FINANCE HOUSE) to his or her country, as I have made up my mind to invest and live in that country. As an assylum seeker, I am not allowed to operate any Bank Account within DAKAR-SENEGAL.I have agreed to offer you 7% of the total sum for your assistance as soon as the money gets into your account, while 5% will be for any expences that may be incurred in the course of this transaction both locally and internationally.

I want truth and honesty to be our watch word in this transaction. Please treat this proposal as (STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL). All I want you to do is to furnish me, with your personal phone and fax numbers, and your private e-mail address for easy and urgent communication.

Note that this transaction is 100% Risk free and absolutely my personal inheritance, from my late father's hard earned money. Thanks you.

Sincerely Yours,

AGNES GEZI.


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